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caraigSo we stopped by the US Space and Rocketry Museum in Huntsville, Alabama, today. It's the home of Space Camp/US Space Academy, which I had always wanted to go to.
To be honest, it was supremely depressing. The Smithsonian Air-Space Museum was amazing and incredible. The USSRM was... rather morbid. The rockets and missiles in the yard -- they have a scale model of the Saturn V and a Saturn I as well -- were in ill condition and not well maintained. The entire facility was in dire need of maintenance and overhauling. There were more 'out of order' signs than I would have really liked to have seen. And the exhibits were minimal at best.
I should be glad that Space Camp still goes on, and that there was as much restoration and overhauling going on as there was. But it really hit home that the US space program is going nowhere fast, even with Bush II's re-envisioning of the space program and our goal to get to Mars by 2014 (of which nothing I've heard of has come of it.)
Anyway... we're in Dickson, TN, now, and we're about three or four days away from vegas if we book it. More later. Pax.
To be honest, it was supremely depressing. The Smithsonian Air-Space Museum was amazing and incredible. The USSRM was... rather morbid. The rockets and missiles in the yard -- they have a scale model of the Saturn V and a Saturn I as well -- were in ill condition and not well maintained. The entire facility was in dire need of maintenance and overhauling. There were more 'out of order' signs than I would have really liked to have seen. And the exhibits were minimal at best.
I should be glad that Space Camp still goes on, and that there was as much restoration and overhauling going on as there was. But it really hit home that the US space program is going nowhere fast, even with Bush II's re-envisioning of the space program and our goal to get to Mars by 2014 (of which nothing I've heard of has come of it.)
Anyway... we're in Dickson, TN, now, and we're about three or four days away from vegas if we book it. More later. Pax.
